Filing device for bound catalogues, books, &amp;c.



A. L. LEWIS. FILING DEVICE FOR BOUND CATALOGUES, BO0KS,&c.

APPLICATION mm APR. 29..l9l8.

1 375,054. Patented Aug. 6, 191a oFFIoE.

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Tocllnnkom it may concern:

Be-it known that I, ARTHUiz LEONV'LEWISQ a citizenof the United States,and resident of Newtonville,' county ofyMiddlese r, State 6 ofMassachusetts, have invented an'lmprove merit. in jFjling' Devices for.Bound Catalogues,-Books, &c.,'o'f which the following description, inconnection with the accoin panyingfldrawin'g, is a. specifieationflike10 characters on the drawing representing like Par catalogues'and theobject thereof to pro duce a bound .Or loose'leaf catalogue which 15will be provided, with identifying-'-.means whereby it may be easilyfiled 'in 'theproper section of a classified filing cabinet or suitablgclassified in some otheiy epository. i t the present time, asinfthepast, catazo logues are issued in the Torin of pamphlets,

Orbooks' of various size, shape and thickness and when notin use aregenerally placed upon shelves in more 'or Jess miscellaneous order 'orput avvayin piles and. jfsta'cks and practically lost. .VVhere catalogues of different size and thickness'are thus stored upon shelves oiin piles the thinner catalogues become lost for the reason that tlierisnot sufiicient area upon their so binding to "receive identifyingindicia.

When, therefore, a thin catalogue is reqilired it is usuallynecessary topull out a largenumber of catalogues before the catalogue which issought appears. In many 36 instances new catalogues are ordered to avoidthe necessity, of searching through 1 miscellaneous files for thecatalogue originally received. This unnecessary duplicati0n.ofcatalogues imposes a considerable 40' ex'pensefupon'the concern issuingthe publi-' ."cation. y i t The present invention is'designed to providea catalogue which can be made of a standard shape and size either to fita stand- '45 ard filingcabinet or any other suitable filing repository.4 u v .y A further 0b]ect of the invention is to rovide a cataloguewith-means to recelve identifying indicia by means of which a plu- .50rality of classifications may be applied so that the catalogue mayconveniently be filed I in different classifications.

A further o b'ect of the invention is j to rovide' means whereby acatalogue or book s ecimens of was 2m n.

. his invention relates to improvements inapinimm new-a nea, ieia. swrm) 231,2.

m y q i kl located in its lassified us) tio'n, either by subjectmatter,or from name,

without the necessity of referring to anyff 1 index torascertain itslocationas is. a usual custom at the present time. i

Certain preferred embodiments'of mv inf vention' are illustrated in thedrawingsin 1 which, v

v-.Figure l is a perspective-view ofa cata-- logue embodying-myinvention showing-the book cover provided with a tab adapted to it!"receive identifying indicia,

Fig. 2 1s a similar view of the reverse side of thecatalogu'e shearingdifi'erent-indicia as ap plied to the tab, I A

Fig. '3 isja perspective view upon a small scale of the catalogue openatits middle to nature's are fastened therein.

The book or catalogue illustrated in 1,12 and 3 comp-rises a preferablyrectan- Whichmay bemade-ef a singlepiece or may be of a pl'ura'hty ofmembers bound together along the rear edge 3 t contain a-series ofi '50tures may be secured to and retained in the leaves 'or signatures 4.Th,,e-lea-ves or signav S ow the manner in vvhich the leaves or sig'13s" gulal cover having a'front land aback 2 "a cover in any desirablemanner known in the .lbookhinders art. A convenient and common meanswhich is illustrated herein comprises a. pluralit of stripies 5 and 6which pass tl'n'oughthe folded line of the covermemhers I andz andthrough the'folded edge of the leaves 4. a

()ne of tin-covers, preferably the ba-ck't i cover 2 is provided with atab 7 WlliCh'DI'O:

jecrs upwardly preferably "from the upper-f corner and may extend anysuitable distance along the edge. "lhistab is adaptedto receivcindicating indicia 8. such for example as Elevat ng trucks? illustrated..by wh'ich the mitalfifiio may be readily ident'ified.-= The tab 7 mayreceive on its reverse sule other indicia 9 such l IJ. S. Co. so thatthe catalogue or book may be identified either by the subject matter orbv thenamc of the maybe applied to it.

These catalogues preferably are made of a standard size corresponding tothe cards or divisioncards of a'usual standard filing syse if mm so thatthe catalogue may be readily J disturbing the, system of classificationused placed in "such a usual letter, file without loo concern issuing itor any other indicia which therein. B'y thus providing a catalogue whichcan be readily filed the user of the I catalogue will naturally place itin his letter file of cabinet whereit will be readily aceessible andeasy tofind when needed again. By reason of th s-convenience the userwill not'be likely to destroy-"the catalogue or toss it into themiscellaneous pile where it will becomelos't; the expense therefore ofdupli cation of catalogues by thefirm issuing the 'same will be reducedvery greatly and the delay and annoyance occasioned by searchlng'forcatalogues such as are now in use will be entirely eliminated.

It will be understood that the? embodiments of the inventiondisclosedlherein are illustrative merely and not restrictive andthat'varinus modlfications may be made within the meaning and scope of thefollowaving thus described my invention what I claim as newand desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

A catalogue in book form comprising a .cover in whlch the leaves arepermanently bound, a portion of one of the cover leaves projectingbeyond the main edge and said A ARTHUR LEoNLEWIsf i

